Jennifer's 365 Project

This month's Loot Crate came with a Minecraft 2014 calendar. And I had just the blank wall space at work for it.

This month's Loot Crate is pretty awesome. I mean, Star Wars phase book and travel guide plus a NASA patch? Yes please.

Plus Chris makes out pretty well. I mean, that Domo Superman totally has his name written on it.

More Snow. Bleh.

Earlier this month Chris saw this awesome shirt for sale at Ript Apparel. Given that I absolutely adore Trigun (I mean, I once had a dog named Vash!), I had to buy this shirt. Now I wish I had bought two, for the eventual day that this one wears out.

Anyway, the shirt arrived today, and it is every bit as awesome as I imagined it could be.

I almost feel like re-reading the manga now.

While I was out on lunch it started to snow downtown every so lightly. At least it stopped pretty soon after it started. The last thing anyone wants at this point is more snow (except maybe small children hoping for more days off school).

My first sushi attempt from a few weeks ago went relatively well, except for adding way too much sushi vinegar to the rice. The sushi was hard to eat after a few bites.

So I thought I'd try it again, this time with much less vinegar. I used about quarter of what the recipe I'd used earlier called for. So far things taste better - so I consider that success. Though these rolls aren't as tight as the ones I made the first time. Oh well.

Still, here's to having lunch pre-made for the next several days!

Saturday has been a great day. Some reading, some exercising, and lots of gaming. Chris even printed me a little Assassin's Creed emblem on the 3D printer while he was messing around printing other things.

I spent pretty much the whole evening playing Assassin's Creed 4 this evening. I'm barely into the story line and I've spent 5+ hours in the game. Mostly I'm just wandering around, plundering and assassinating things.

I'd show you a nice screenshot of the game, because it does look gorgeous, but the xbox doesn't do screenshots. So take my word for it that it's beautiful. Or look up some PS4 screenshots, because that system lets you do screenshots...

Tonight is the State of the State address! So Chris made me this pseudo-foam finger to wave around while we watching.

We went to see Her tonight. I really don't care for romantic movies, but I enjoyed this one. Maybe because it wasn't gushy and over the top, like all the previews they played before the film. Ugh.

Anyway, the film was pretty good. I'd recommend seeing it if you have any interest based on the previews.

These days you can buy a lot of music digitally, which means no need to store CDs somewhere once you've ripped the files onto your hard drive. Unless, of course, the music you want is only available digitally in another country. Then you have to either wait for someone in the US to distribute the music, or you buy an import CD.

The cost on import CDs seem much cheaper than they did years ago, and in this particular case, this Mary Epworth CD cost as much as the digital files would, if they were available to someone in the US.

I still not sure why, in this day in age, distributors have such artificial barriers to digital media. It's the same way with books, although I have heard that in some cases if you set your Kindle to the UK (or whatever country) you can purchase an ebook and then set your region back to the US. Either way, I just opted to buy the CD and rip it myself as opposed to wait for a US company to "distribute" the mp3s.

The Kinect requires a lot of room. It was an issue in our apartment and it's an issue in the house. It's great for basements that have been converted to entertainment rooms or large living rooms, but since we have neither a little improvising is required.

In order to use the Kinect for Xbox Fitness, I have to upend the couch and move the ottomans out of the room. Only then do I have enough room for the majority of things. This system works out alright so far, but I do wish there was a way to get the Kinect to register people much closer to the sensor.